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Friday, June 8, 2012

Overturned Car, 6th & Marin

I feel like an Eyewitness Action News Team of one. I usually refrain from a post like this, I do
not want to exploit somebody's misery, but
the picture was too dramatic not to rubber neck. This overturned car was on Sixth & Marin Blvd., the main drive to
the Newport Mall and Holland Tunnel. The special name is Thomas Gangemi Drive,
whoever that may be. When I got there, a woman on a stretcher was being loaded into an ambulance, a picture
I did refrain from taking. Looks like they had to use the Jaws
of Life to remove the top of the car. I think both drivers were taken to the
hospital, there did not seem to be anybody involved in the accident around,
just the police, fire and other emergency personnel. Marin Blvd. was closed off
for a block either way, the flow of cars thickened as they followed the
emergency detour. I have no idea what happened, I was not a witness, but it
must have been some collision to knock a car on its side, never saw that in
town before. Maybe if there was better enforcement of speed limits in town,
just saying. Jersey City is known as a short cut to the Turnpike and Holland
Tunnel and drivers make that shorter by pressing the pedal to the metal. All pedestrians
round these parts know what I’m talking about. Just saying. The real truth is
accidents happen, all the time, all too often. Tragedy is sudden. Life is as
fragile as an eggshell, security an illusion disappearing in an instant. Blink
of you eye, all plans are out the window; your car is on its side somewhere
near Newport Mall and you’re on a gurney in the Emergency Room. I wash the cops
push the car to its tires. I didn’t stay around for the tow.